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Scavenging food from the fodder provided to farm animals, working 11-12 hours a day for 50-100 euros a month, Balbir suffered inhuman conditions at the hands of his employers.
With offers of phony jobs in other countries to a population desperate for work, the 'agencies' extract lakhs of rupees in exchange for illegal border crossings and near entrapment at the other end.
'Donkey routes' or human trafficking routes to Western countries involve life-threatening dangers and inhuman conditions for months together. But the urge for a better life outweighs everything else.
Seduced by the idea of earning well, thousands of Punjabi youths pay traffickers lakhs of rupees to get to Italy, only to find themselves working in conditions of near slavery.